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Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, Tom was looping in supply chain partners, as well as quality, sales, and finance teams that were dispersed around the globe. In fact, the lack of standard operating procedures for using these tools, and the sheer number of them, have even exacerbated this challenge.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. This gap between insurers and customers can be widened into a gulf by trust brokers, who dominate the top-heavy insurance brokerage market and benefit from its opacity and byzantine operating standards.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits.